Quick query.

If 2 companies are federated and a user in CompanyA sends a meeting request to a user in CompanyB via outlook (eg meet.companya.com), would the conferenct take place via the federated edge servers or would CompanyB only connect to CompanyAs edge servers?

Hi,

In that instance, then yes I believe that both Edge servers will be leveraged for traffic.

Kind regards

Hi,

Agree with BenDonaldson. If the two companies have done the federation each other, when the user in CompanyB join the Lync meeting hosted by the user in CompanyA, the workflow is as following:

Lync will first check if User is enabled for federation, if yes, the Lync check if Lync is enabled for Federation, if yes, Lync will check if Open federation is enabled, If yes (or no, but the remote domain is allowed), then The user will join the meeting as a federated user through both two side Edge.

Best Regards,
Eason Huang

Is there a way to modify that behaviour? Basically we have a federated customer but the quality is not great to the degree that they are using a third party conferencing tool which has very little quality issues. I wanted to rule out our Edge server as the bottle neck.

Also, ive found out they actually use a VPN (External access is configured but not enabled for their users) to connect to Lync so may explain call issues.

Ive read Lync over VPN is a big no no and Split tunnelling should be configured.